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Loading... CHESAPEAKE U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes is pushing for quicker release of an EPA study of potential contamination from coal ash buried at Battlefield Golf Club.

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The head of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan downplayed the president's July 2011 goal to begin withdrawing troops and said he wouldn't rule out delaying that timeline or even adding more troops to the new 100,000 end strength planned for the country.

Two Navy SEALs accused in the mistreatment of an Iraqi suspect in the 2004 slayings of four U.S. contractors were arraigned in military court Monday, and one SEAL said he was gratified by support from the public and some members of Congress.

Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake Total spending for quarter: $332,279 Rep. Glenn Nye, D-Norfolk Total spending for quarter: $291,512 Rep.

The Afghanistan strategy that President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday earned qualified support from lawmakers in Hampton Roads , but they still have many questions and some outright objections.

The Hampton Roads Congressional Delegation asked President Obama Monday to support Gov.

Army takes Fort Lee hotel plan to Congress before environmental review Nov. 24--PETERSBURG -- Army officials have made a formal request to Congress to approve a 1,000-room hotel at Fort Lee even though an environmental review of the proposal has not been completed, a spokesman for a local coalition of business owners said Monday.

This Saturday, Tom Sullivan , of Newport News , will be installed as the new president of the Virginia Peninsula Association of Realtors.

A conservative civil liberties group is urging the dismissal of a lawsuit by an atheist group that wants to remove engravings of "In God We Trust" and "under God" from a display in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center .

Several GOP lawmakers seem to have blown off House Judiciary committee votes on the Patriot Act in favor of toasting Tea Partiers at Michelle Bachmann's rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill yesterday.

Saturday's health care reform vote in the House of Representatives may well have been the first shots in the 2010 election.

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The ink is not even dry on the health care bill passed in the House of Representatives Saturday night, but Virginia's Governor-Elect is not impressed.

Two of the six Democrats in Virginia's congressional delegation last night voted against President Barack Obama's 10-year, $1.2 trillion health-care reform plan.

The final health care reform bill could top 2,000 pages. That's a lot of detail for House members to pour over.

By Diana McFarland Smithfield Times News editor FRANKLIN - Besides losing their jobs, workers at the Franklin paper mill are also angry with corporations taking manufacturing jobs out of the country.

CC: [I recently graduated from] John Tyler Community College, Midlothian campus, with a degree in political science.

A Virginia congressman is working to help those affected by International Paper Company's closing in Franklin get back on their feet.

Rep. Randy Forbes has set up a Website to help people affected by International Paper Co.'s decision to close its plant in Franklin.